There will be spoilers for Rose Drive in this spotlight review. I highly recommend listening first. The word “cinematic” should not be used lightly for an audio-based medium; it is linked tightly with sweeping musical scores against a visual backdrop. …
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The Interlaced Fate of Music and Humanity in the “Marsfall” Second Season Finale
Marsfall, a science-fiction podcast following a group of colonizers after they have landed on Mars, grapples with the subsequent horrors they have to face, both from within and from outside. The season two finale, “Chapter 17 – Chip”, witnesses an epic …
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Spotlight: The Ambitious Sound of Archive 81’s Whaling Adventure
Warning: The following review has some spoilers for previous episodes, and some spoilers for the current episode. Traveling through the strange horror and magic of Archive 81 has always been its own adventure, reinvented and readjusted every season like looking through one …
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Spotlight: The Bright Sessions’ “Rose” Breaks your Heart in Song
Minimal spoilers to follow, in what is something of a review and more of an impressionistic love letter.‘Rose’ was a masterpiece of audio drama that gave me the uplifting and astonished sensation that this is the pinnacle that they’ve been …
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